> This is interesting information. Could the "vanity" part have been > because only the richest could afford to bathe often in those times and the > Church was catering to the (unwashed) faithful?
Even the rich - bishops, kings and such - didn’t bathe.
> I wonder who invented the shower - which I believe is one of the
> greatest hygiene related inventions ever.
Someone called shower, if Thomas Crapper's example fits the bill.
srs (who got some email once from a Frenchman called Lecrapper)
